From Scrolls to Scrolling : : Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures /

From Scrolls to Scrolling : : Sacred Texts, Materiality, and Dynamic Media Cultures / / Bradford A. Anderson.

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Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn...

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Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien
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Anderson, Bradford A.,
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Fachinformationsdienst Jüdische Studien
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation
Physical Description:1 online resource (XVII, 307 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Open-Access-Transformation in den Jüdischen Studien
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Introduction: Materiality, Liminality, and the Digital Turn: The Sacred Texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Material Perspective
  • Stichographic Layout in the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls: Observations on its Development and its Potential
  • Reading Aids in Early Christian Papyri
  • Writing the Qur’ān Between the Lines: Marginal and Interlinear Notes in Selected Qur’ān Fragments from the Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar
  • The Sefer Torah and Jewish Orthodoxy in the Islamic Middle Ages
  • From Scroll to Codex: Dynamics of Text Layout Transformation in the Hebrew Bible
  • Memory, Performance, and Change: The Psalms’ Layout in Late Medieval and Early Modern Bibles
  • Be Your Own Scribe: Bible Journalling and the New Illuminators of the Densely-Printed Page
  • Monks, Manuscripts, Muhammad, and Digital Editions of the New Testament
  • The Qur’ānic Text from Manuscript to Digital Form: Metalinguistic Markup of Scribes and Editors
  • Paratexts and the Hermeneutics of Digital Bibles
  • Virtual Qur’ān: Authenticity, Authority, and Ayat in Bytes
  • Sacred Texts in a Digital Age: Materiality, Digital Culture, and the Functional Dimensions of Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • Scriptural Index
  • Subject Index

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